# Coolfore, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Cúil Fobhair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 701,430 m² (70.14 ha, 173.33 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,734 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheross, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheross.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Carrickmacross Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Carrickmacross Rural electoral division: 4,291 people in 1,518 households; 63% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39319 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170368 - Centre: latitude 54.007145, longitude -6.764682 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolfore, from 393 m² to 153,661 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 324825: 153,661 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324825.md - Parcel 353191: 120,982 m² (12.1 ha, 29.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353191.md - Parcel 347174: 74,623 m² (7.46 ha, 18.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347174.md - Parcel 4523584: 73,791 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4523584.md - Parcel 323520: 73,512 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323520.md - Parcel 330109: 55,385 m² (5.54 ha, 13.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330109.md - Parcel 350900: 50,327 m² (5.03 ha, 12.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350900.md - Parcel 326080: 49,083 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326080.md - Parcel 350413: 16,257 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350413.md - Parcel 5677266: 5,750 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5677266.md - Parcel 2687572: 3,734 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2687572.md - Parcel 4604566: 3,168 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4604566.md - Parcel 334805: 3,029 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334805.md - Parcel 316458: 2,735 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316458.md - Parcel 4563713: 2,616 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4563713.md - Parcel 339006: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339006.md - Parcel 336642: 2,274 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336642.md - Parcel 2399256: 2,111 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2399256.md - Parcel 314910: 1,948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/314910.md - Parcel 342920: 1,620 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342920.md - Parcel 346382: 393 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/346382.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Coolfore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Jul 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560261: Conditional. Permission. planning permission for conversion of attached shed to living accommodation and single storey extension to dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560261/0 - 16 Feb 2022, Monaghan County Council 2268: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of a storey and a half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information received in relation to revised site layout plan, revised front and rear elevations and revised site characterisation form.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2268/0 - 23 May 2018, Monaghan County Council 18219: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, detached garage, new site entrance to the public road with entrance piers and gates, proposed driveway, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Significant Further Information has been submitted relating to revisions to the development and comprising of (i) amendment to the development boundary and site area (ii) amendments to the elevations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18219/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolfore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolfore. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolfore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2609, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2609.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolfore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolfore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolfore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Coolfore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumbroagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbroagh.md - Drumgowna: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgowna.md - Greaghdrumneesk: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/greaghdrumneesk.md - Lisnaguiveragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnaguiveragh.md - Peast: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/peast.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolfore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/coolfore